JERUZALEM (ANP/AFP) - Israël zal Iran "met volle kracht" blijven aanvallen. Dat zegt premier Benjamin Netanyahu in een televisietoespraak. Volgens de Israëlische leider heeft het land "nog vele doelwitten" om te raken in Iran, om zo het regime te destabiliseren. Ook zei hij dat Israël en de Verenigde Staten inmiddels vrijwel volledig de overmacht hebben in het Iraanse luchtruim.
Aan Iraniërs beloofde Netanyahu dat het "moment van de waarheid" voor hen eraan komt, en dat Israël hen zal helpen te bevrijden van wat Netanyahu omschreef als het "juk van de tyrannie". Ook motiveerde hij de Amerikaans-Israëlische aanvallen op Iran vanuit de keuze van Teheran om zijn kernprogramma ondergronds voort te zetten.
Eerder deze week zei Israël nabij Teheran al een geheime kernfaciliteit onder de grond te hebben vernietigd. Volgens het Israëlische leger, aangehaald door The Times of Israel, zou Teheran daar ondergronds zijn gegaan na eerdere Israëlische aanvallen in juni van afgelopen jaar.
EMMEN (ANP) - In dierenpark Wildlands in Emmen wordt onderzoek gedaan naar vogelgriep. Dat gebeurt omdat er aanwijzingen zijn dat het virus aanwezig is in enkele dode vogels, meldt het ministerie van Landbouw, Visserij, Voedselzekerheid en Natuur.
Een deel van het park, Birdy Bush, is in verband hiermee de komende drie weken gesloten voor bezoekers. Dat is protocol, meldt Wildlands op de website.
In het park overleden eerder deze week plotseling drie Madagaskar-kuifibissen. Twee van de vogels zijn overleden aan een virusziekte, zo is naar voren gekomen uit onderzoek van de kadavers door de Universiteit Utrecht.
MIAMI (ANP) - Ozzie Albies heeft de Nederlandse honkballers met een indrukwekkende homerun aan een zege op Nicaragua in de World Baseball Classic geholpen (4-3). Hij sloeg bij een achterstand van 3-1 zichzelf en twee ploeggenoten in de laatste inning binnen. De wedstrijd was meteen voorbij.
Albies werd na zijn homerun bedolven door zijn opgeluchte ploeggenoten. Bij een nederlaag was Oranje nagenoeg uitgeschakeld geweest, na het verlies van vrijdag tegen Venezuela (6-2). Nu is er nog hoop. Oranje speelt zondag tegen de Dominicaanse Republiek, de torenhoge favoriet voor de groepswinst. Israël is dinsdag de laatste tegenstander in de poule. De beste twee teams gaan naar de kwartfinales.
Nederland verloor in de achtste inning bij een gelijke stand (1-1) de controle over de wedstrijd. Lars Huijer, spelend bij de Pirates in de Nederlandse competitie, kreeg een homerun en twee punten tegen. Die schade leek te groot om nog te kunnen repareren, totdat Albies met twee ploeggenoten op de honken genadeloos toesloeg.
Brewdog, one of the pioneers of the craft beer movement in the UK, has been sold after going into receivership. Many of their pubs will be closed, and there is much general unhappiness.
Founded in 2007, the company has been bought by US firm Tilray Brands, who own a number of other craft beers including Blue Moon, Montauk Brewing Company and Redhook Brewery.
River's ancient language awakens after "sleeping" for generations.
Ngaiawang language, once spoken frequently along the sweeping bend of the River Murray or the Rinta, was almost wiped out by colonisation.
It was everything an FA Cup tie should be, as six goals were scored, one player was sent off and a Premier League side received a huge scare, requiring villainous technology to save them from a likely penalty shootout. The only thing missing was an upset but Chelsea will not mind triumphing against Wrexham in a classic of the genre.
Goals from Sam Smith and Callum Doyle twice gave the Championship side the lead, only for an Arthur Okonkwo own goal and Josh Acheampong’s strike to take the game into extra time. Garnacho, who had earlier been the victim of a red-card challenge from George Dobson, volleyed home the winner. If not for the video assistant referee, the match would probably have gone to penalties but Lewis Blunt’s equaliser was ruled out by the finest of margins. João Pedro added a fourth in added time to remove any lasting jeopardy.
Continue reading...Guirassy and Beier on target in 2-1 win at Cologne
Dortmund now eight points clear of fifth-place Leipzig
Goals from Serhou Guirassy and Maximilian Beier took Borussia Dortmund to a 2-1 win at Cologne, tightening their grip on Champions League qualification. Dortmund’s pulsating 3-2 home loss to Bayern Munich last week ended their slim Bundesliga title hopes. Saturday’s win took second-placed Dortmund eight clear of fifth-placed RB Leipzig.
Beier teed up Guirassy after 16 minutes, floating a ball over the Cologne defence for the Guinean to score his 12th Bundesliga goal this season.
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1 min: The kick-off’s sent long, and Newcastle win a throw deep in City territory on the left. Hall launches long. The ball nearly drops first to Woltemade, then Elanga, but neither can get an effort on target and turn themselves into the Jackie Milburn de nos jours. The 45-second mark ticks over without the scoreboard being troubled.
Newcastle United get the ball rolling. City are kicking towards the Gallowgate in this first half.
Continue reading...A hundred days from their first game, Iran’s prospects of playing in the US are fast fading as turbulent times once more affect the tournament
Saturday marks 100 days from what should be the start of Iran’s World Cup, a Group G fixture against New Zealand in Inglewood, near Los Angeles. As the United States bombs Iran – and Iran bombs a range of countries, including three that have also qualified – it seems all but impossible that they can take part in the tournament.
Were Iran to pull out or be expelled, they would become the first qualified nation since India and France in 1950 not to take up their place. Neither withdrawal in 1950 was political (in truth, saying there were two withdrawals is a technicality; those were chaotic years for qualification). India pulled out not, as has often been claimed, because they were banned from playing barefoot, but because they couldn’t afford the trip.
Continue reading...The humiliation in Rome means it is now three defeats in a row for England, each more soul-destroying than the last
The haunted look writ large across the face of Maro Itoje said it all. England had burst into the Italy half, deep into the 80th minute, and Ollie Chessum was on the gallop, desperately trying to salvage something from the wreckage. Closer and closer they got before the shrill of the referee’s whistle confirmed England’s worst nightmare. Italy were about to put the seal on a first ever win in the fixture in 33 attempts and it was dawning on Itoje that he was powerless to stop it.
The final whistle blew and England players were, to a man, stunned. Shellshocked. Marcus Smith was on his haunches, Chandler Cunningham-South staring into the abyss. The camera panned to Tom Curry, ruled out after an injury in the warm-up, as he slumped on the bench wearing a look of despair. England in ruins. The empire that Steve Borthwick had built reduced to rubble. When responses to defeat are promised and repeatedly fail to materialise, the logical next step is regime change.
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In Emmen, provincie Drenthe, wordt onderzoek gedaan naar vogelgriep bij een dierenpark. Dit wordt gedaan omdat er aanwijzingen waren van de aanwezigheid van het virus bij enkele dode vogels. De Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA) heeft tot op heden geen vogelgriep vast kunnen stellen bij levende vogels in het dierenpark. De NVWA zal de komende tijd samen met de dierentuin de situatie nauwlettend in de gaten houden. De dieren zullen gedurende drie weken worden gemonitord. Het betreffende deel van het dierenpark blijft de komende periode afgesloten voor het publiek.
"Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region's waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire," reports CNN, "erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land.
"The location confusion was a result of widespread jamming and spoofing of signals from global positioning satellite systems."
Used by all sides in conflict zones to disrupt the paths of drones and missiles, the process involves militaries and affiliated groups intentionally broadcasting high-intensity radio signals in the same frequency bands used by navigation tools. Jamming results in the disruption of a vehicle's satellite-based positioning while spoofing leads to navigation systems reporting a false location. Though commercial vessels are not the target, the electronic interference disrupted the navigation systems of more than 1,100 commercial ships in UAE, Qatari, Omani and Iranian waters on February 28, according to a report from Windward, a shipping intelligence firm. Jamming and spoofing also slowed marine traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz, a congested shipping lane that handles roughly 20% of the world's oil and gas exports and where precise navigation is essential, Windward's data showed.... Daily incidents have more than doubled, rising from 350 when the conflict began to 672 by March 2, the firm reported.
As use of this warfare tactic grows, experts worry the impacts could reach far beyond battlespaces.... In June 2025, electronic interference with navigation systems was thought to be a factor in the collision between two oil tankers, Adalynn and Front Eagle, off the coast of the UAE... The number of global positioning system signal loss events affecting aircraft increased by 220% between 2021 and 2024, according to data from the International Air Transport Association. Last year, IATA said that the aviation industry must act to stay ahead of the threat.
Cockpits are seeing their navigation displays "literally drift away from reality," said a commercial pilot, who didn't want to be identified because he was not permitted to speak publicly. He said that he and his colleagues have experienced map shifts, where the aircraft location appears to move up to 1 mile away from the actual flight path, false altitude information that leads to phantom "pull up" commands, and systems suggesting an aircraft was on a taxiway, a path that connects runways with various airport facilities, when taking off. These incidents force pilots to rely on manual actions that increase workload, often during the most exhausting points of long-haul flights, he said.
"Alternative navigational tools that don't rely on GPS, but instead harness quantum technology, are also in development," the article points out, "but remain a long way off operational use."
"The location confusion was a result of widespread jamming and spoofing of signals from global positioning satellite systems."
Used by all sides in conflict zones to disrupt the paths of drones and missiles, the process involves militaries and affiliated groups intentionally broadcasting high-intensity radio signals in the same frequency bands used by navigation tools. Jamming results in the disruption of a vehicle's satellite-based positioning while spoofing leads to navigation systems reporting a false location. Though commercial vessels are not the target, the electronic interference disrupted the navigation systems of more than 1,100 commercial ships in UAE, Qatari, Omani and Iranian waters on February 28, according to a report from Windward, a shipping intelligence firm. Jamming and spoofing also slowed marine traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz, a congested shipping lane that handles roughly 20% of the world's oil and gas exports and where precise navigation is essential, Windward's data showed.... Daily incidents have more than doubled, rising from 350 when the conflict began to 672 by March 2, the firm reported.
As use of this warfare tactic grows, experts worry the impacts could reach far beyond battlespaces.... In June 2025, electronic interference with navigation systems was thought to be a factor in the collision between two oil tankers, Adalynn and Front Eagle, off the coast of the UAE... The number of global positioning system signal loss events affecting aircraft increased by 220% between 2021 and 2024, according to data from the International Air Transport Association. Last year, IATA said that the aviation industry must act to stay ahead of the threat.
Cockpits are seeing their navigation displays "literally drift away from reality," said a commercial pilot, who didn't want to be identified because he was not permitted to speak publicly. He said that he and his colleagues have experienced map shifts, where the aircraft location appears to move up to 1 mile away from the actual flight path, false altitude information that leads to phantom "pull up" commands, and systems suggesting an aircraft was on a taxiway, a path that connects runways with various airport facilities, when taking off. These incidents force pilots to rely on manual actions that increase workload, often during the most exhausting points of long-haul flights, he said.
"Alternative navigational tools that don't rely on GPS, but instead harness quantum technology, are also in development," the article points out, "but remain a long way off operational use."
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